Royal Melbourne Show 06'

Announcing 'The Royal Melbourne Show' 2006!

It was a fun event that has exhibitions of arts & crafts, fashion shows, night live concerts, rides, game stalls, food expo, animal expo and showbags!!Entrance was $16 for concession which does not include food,showbags and rides.
There were 7 of us that went. Christie(Sandy's sister), Sandy,Ellie,Sindy,Adam,Jacqueline and I. Jacq and Adam left early while the rest of us trawl the arena til 8pm.We got there about 3pm.We started of with eating,first meal of the day!Ellie,Sindy and I had Hot Dogs.We walked around and looked at animals.The Alpaca's were interesting as it is not something you get to see everyday.The cats and dogs were adorable!



Next we went to the Arts & Crafts exhibition where there were all sorts of crafts on display.There were drawings by high school and primary school kids.Cross stitchings of all levels and colours, calligraphy, Cake decorations, baking competition(were judged beforehand),wooden craft,patch work, smocking and pottery.



There were plenty of rides but they were expensive as you have to pay for each ride.The interesting ones were charged at $15 per ride while the less exhilirating ones were charged $6 per ride.Quite a rip-off really!Sandy and Ellie went for 2 rides where they got stuck in one of them and got their money refunded!Scary hanging in mid-air!Apparently the fuel ran out!What kind of carelessness/ignorance is this?Thank goodness everything was fine!

Did a lot of food tasting while in the food expo.Tasted yoghurt,Cadbury ice-cream with hazelnut sauce,chocolates,chips and wine!Although in bite size portion,I got full after tasting all of those.I bought a bar of Merlot Vintage Chocolate for $5.Pretty good.What made it better is that you can hardly find it in the city!Should've bought more...dang!hahaha...

The last stop was to the showbag expo.There were so many different ones!There were confectionary showbags,costumes,gag bag,magazines showbags,girls only showbags and kiddies/cartoon showbags.What got people crazy about showbags is the price.You have multiple things in the showbags for about a fraction of the price and they are pretty neat stuff too!I got a Winx Club showbag for Mel and A SpongeBob hat for Becca.Only got myself a Luxury showbag that cost me $5.Had a current issue of the Readers Digest, Home Decoration-old issue,samples of creams and confectionaries, and a bottle of Oyster sauce!How funny is that!You pretty much miss the point of being in the Royal Melbourne Show if you do not buy at least a showbag!After all,I think that is the specialty of the show.

It was a tiring but FUN day!